Ioana Ursu

Ioana Ursu, visual education teacher and artist, a graduate of the National University of Arts in Bucharest (History and Theory of Art) and the Faculty of Humanities of UGAL, has participated in solo and group art exhibitions in Romania and abroad - Spain and Greece - and is a book illustrator and essayist.

Critic opinions:
Marta Lock (Italy)
Romanian artist Ioana Ursu is inspired by the atmospheres of Tamara de Lempicka, reinterpreting them according to her own approach to life and existence, thus retaining the decisive chromaticism and the almost edgy stroke both in the representation of faces and in that of the light that therefore appear to sculpt her protagonists and their clothes, but giving them a more expressionist version, symbolist in some canvases, thus softening the gaze and bringing out an interiority and sensitivity that in the artworks of the Art Deco master seemed to be hiding behind the algid and determined approach to a society in which women had yet to gain emancipation and the right to be able to a more central role. Ioana Ursu moves on a timeless dimension because for her it is essential to portray and celebrate women in all their facets, nuances of personality.

Francesca Callipari
Art critic and Art curator...

National University of Arts in Bucharest (History and Theory of Art) and the Faculty of Humanities of UGAL

1993 – Personal Exhibition – Oltenița,
România
1996 – Group Exhibition – Gumelnița
Museum, Oltenița, România
1996 – Group Exhibition – Dunărea de
Jos Museum Călărași, România
2007 – Personal Exhibition -
”Selfportrait” ISJ Călărași, România
2024 Book illustrations - Dinu Popescu,
”Pierduți în poezie”
2025 – Group Exhibitions – World Trade
Center Bucharest, România
2025 - Group Exhibition - Crowne
Plaza, Bucharest, Romania
2025 - Group Exhibition “Color Fiesta”,
Ulmacarisa Galeria de Arte, Madrid,
Spain
2025 - Group Exhibition “Portrait of a
Woman”, FormArt Gallery, Bucharest,
Romania
2025 - Group Exhibition “Signs of
Love”, Habian Studio, Bucharest,
Romania
2025 - Group Exhibition “Floralis”,
Orhideea Towers, Bucharest, Romania
2025 - Group Exhibition “Venetian
Salon”, FormArt Gallery, Bucharest,
Romania
2025 - Group Exhibition “Mater Mundi”,
Alma Mater Gallery, Athens, Greece